[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho":3,"chapter-starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-98":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Starting Immortal Cultivation from the Clan School",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2313992,4525,"Chapter 98: Merit Points Reward","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-98",98,"\u003Cp>Su Jin immediately nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She highly approved of Xue Chi Luo’s realization—knowing to return home early was good enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Better than running off and disappearing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, she would tell her elder brother that Xue Chi Luo had agreed to help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Elder brother, Xue Chi Luo agreed to help. But if you find anything tasty, you must give him a share,” Su Jin emphasized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course,” Su Jian nodded eagerly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who works without getting paid?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He must be paid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Xue Chi Luo refuses, he’ll make sure he gets paid—can’t let the Neijian Office benefit for free.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, after eating that female insect, Xue Chi Luo grew bigger,” Su Jin dropped another shocking revelation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What? Grew bigger?” Su Jian exclaimed in surprise: “How big?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jin immediately gestured: “About a foot tall now. Before, he was less than a palm’s height.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grew that much? That female insect was that nutritious?” Su Jian was stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After eating that female insect, it can speak now,” Su Jin continued, unafraid to drop more bombshells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can speak? Wait—you mean it can talk like a human? That’s impossible.” Su Jian’s composure shattered in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he saw Su Jin staring at him in utter bewilderment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian immediately wiped the shocked look off his face and forced calmness. “Xue Chi Luo is an ancient witch spirit, but it shouldn’t have the ability to speak—unless it’s taken human form. But it’s only been a few days since it hatched; it couldn’t have transformed so soon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Xue Chi Luo says it learned to speak after eating the female insect. It must be because of that insect,” Su Jin immediately deflected. She thought: It’s definitely not that my Xue Chi Luo went off-track—it’s that insect’s influence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The female insect?” Su Jian frowned. That was possible. “Fine, go to school first. I’ll look into the cause later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If all else fails, I’ll just ask someone higher up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mm-hmm, okay,” Su Jin didn’t care much. After breakfast, she eagerly headed to school with Su Hua.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian didn’t go to work—he took the day off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned to accompany Su Hanlin to the Medical Department for a checkup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they confirmed he was fully recovered and ready to return, Su Hanlin intended to go back to work tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, Su Hanlin just couldn’t sit still—he’d rested less than three days and was already desperate to return to the Intelligence Bureau.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Born to be a workhorse, that’s what he is!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian found his brother’s behavior of forcing himself to work while injured utterly incomprehensible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he got injured, he’d just lie flat and do nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wouldn’t even step out until he was completely healed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what could he do? Su Hanlin was his brother—he’d still accompany him to the checkup, for safety’s sake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, who knew if the Medical Department had spies who might stab him again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he got stabbed again, Su Jian feared Su Hanlin might die right on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before they could leave, Su Huchen arrived with a physician.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physician brought a medicine chest—no need to go to the Medical Department at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The physician re-examined Su Hanlin’s wounds, reapplied ointment, felt his pulse, judged his injuries were mostly healed, gave him a third-grade healing elixir, and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything was done swiftly and efficiently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tomorrow, join the search for the insect nests,” Su Huchen decided the moment the physician left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright,” Su Hanlin said happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There are six managers in the External Intelligence Division. Even though you only handle part of the work, if you perform well, promotion to Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau isn’t out of reach,” Su Huchen laid out the dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bosses in the workplace rarely fail to dangle carrots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian couldn’t watch anymore. “Hanlin isn’t fully recovered yet—why not wait a couple days before sending him back? If you must send him out, don’t make him join such a dangerous operation so soon. Digging up insect nests isn’t harmless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if there’s still something dangerous lurking in the nest? What if Hanlin gets caught in the crossfire?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just stay far back at first,” Su Huchen replied immediately. “Precisely because it’s dangerous, if Hanlin shows up injured, the sect will double his merit points. Once he’s fully healed, what merit will he earn?” Su Huchen scoffed. “You know as well as I do—in a sect, merit points are the real currency. When you can’t get spirit stones, merit points can buy you what you need.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For promotion and raises, merit points are the most important criterion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Hanlin needs three thousand merit points to exchange for a Foundation Establishment elixir.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’s already at Qi Refining seventh layer—if he doesn’t start accumulating points now and get in line early, when he reaches the peak of Qi Refining, will he just be stuck there forever?” Su Huchen spoke bluntly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Jian fell silent at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he dared to glare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Hanlin had originally planned to rest for days—why suddenly insisted on returning to work? Clearly, Su Huchen had secretly persuaded him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Glaring at me won’t help. Hanlin doesn’t have a Purple Mansion cultivator backing him like you do. If he wants to get a Foundation Establishment elixir normally, he must push himself now—he has no connections,” Su Huchen said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like I did back then. No push, no escape from the bottom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Hanlin smiled at this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew these two men, though they held different views, both had his best interests at heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Here, take this. I found you an eye from a transformed tree spirit. Fuse it into your empty eye socket—it’ll make it far easier to sense the qi and movement patterns of plant and tree life.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Hanlin opened the small wooden box Su Huchen handed him—inside lay a green eyeball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Big Hu,” Su Hanlin said cheerfully. He could never have obtained such a treasure on his own. He wondered how many favors and merit points Big Hu had spent to get it. “This eye came from a golden osmanthus tree that swallowed a transformed herb but remained weak—only Qi Refining sixth layer. Its transformation was incomplete: it grew eyes, nose, mouth, hands, and feet—but moved extremely slowly. A passing cultivator spotted it and cut it down.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its body was stored in the Xiancheng treasure vault. I happened upon it by chance—I went to the vault early that morning to exchange items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I spent eight hundred merit points just to get this one eye. I exchanged it this morning; when I went back this afternoon to get an arm, everything was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire body had already been claimed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A tree spirit, and a weak one at Qi Refining level—how did it become so sought-after?” Su Jian asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>",1129,"2026-06-20T13:23:54.434Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ab96d7cd58a11c9e0fab9c4823df74885f425f298ac258e30581cab2e100a212","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-99","starting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-chapter-97",156,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-immortal-cultivation-from-the-clan-scho-cover.jpg"]